A Grammar of Expressive Conducting Gestures
Résumé
In recent years, research on sonification has paid more attention to sound
variations induced by expressive gestures. This chapter focuses on conducting
gestures, emphasizing expressive gestures performed by the nondominant
hand. It is assumed that these gestures implicitly correspond
to musical nuances partially encoded in the scores and convey a meaning
based on a grammatical structure specific to gestural languages. We,
therefore, propose to analyze these gestures in light of linguistic mechanisms
that govern signed languages. In particular, we are interested in
the processes of sign formation from the combination of elementary components
and the inflection processes that apply to these components to
efficiently generate rich and expressive sentences. Based on this grammatical
theory underlying sign language and a sound-tracking methodology,
we create and evaluate a new dataset of expressive conducting gestures.